CVE 7.5 HIGH

free5GC: NEF crashes via logger.Fatal on PFD notification delivery failure (attacker-controlled notifyUri)_CVE-2026-44319

7.5 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

free5GC is an open-source implementation of the 5G core network. Prior to 4.2.2, free5GC's NEF terminates the entire process when a stored PFD-subscription notifyUri cannot be reached. In PfdChangeNotifier.FlushNotifications(), the notifier calls NnefPFDmanagementNotify(...) and on any delivery error invokes logger.PFDManageLog.Fatal(err), which is os.Exit(1)-equivalent in Go. An attacker who can create a PFD subscription with an attacker-chosen notifyUri and then trigger a PFD change can deterministically kill NEF on the asynchronous delivery attempt -- the process exits with status 1, dropping NEF's entire SBI surface until restart. This vulnerability is fixed in 4.2.2.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-44319
Source GitHub_M
Published May 27, 2026 at 15:49

Affected Product

Vendor free5gc
Product free5gc
Version < 4.2.2
Affected Versions free5gc free5gc < 4.2.2

CWE Classification

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